Software engineer

Zeta-Global; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Zeta Global in Hyderabad, India, seeks a CDP ETL & Database Engineer to design scalable data solutions, focusing on CRM data modeling and hybrid architectures. You will collaborate with Solutions Management, Delivery, and Product Engineering across US, India, and Costa Rica to implement robust ETL pipelines.

Responsibilities include building ETL pipelines, onboarding clients to ZMP/CDP+ platform, validating data, performing aggregations, and contributing to change data management and process

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent; strong communication skills.
• Analytical mindset with ability to decipher requirements and implement solutions.
• Experience with ETL concepts, data integration, and data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• ETL Development – build pipelines to feed downstream data processes.
• Onboard new clients onto the ZMP/CDP+ platform and validate ETL files.
• Analyze change requests and implement solutions in development before production.
• Adhere to change data management procedures and participate in CAB meetings.
• Collaborate with peers to streamline processes and reduce implementation duration.

Skills

Relational data modeling

Analytical mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Talend

DM Express

Informatica

Snowflake

MySQL

PostgreSQL

NOSQL DB methodologies

PLSQL

Python

Scala

AWS

S3

EMR

EC2

Git

SVN

Apache Airflow

Kafka

Appworx

Job description

The CDP ETL & Database Engineer will specialize in architecting, designing, and implementing solutions that are sustainable and scalable. The ideal candidate will understand CRM methodologies, with an analytical mindset, and a background in relational modeling in a Hybrid architecture. The candidate will help drive the business towards specific technical initiatives and will work closely with the Solutions Management, Delivery, and Product Engineering teams. The candidate will join a team of developers across the US, India & Costa Rica.

Responsibilities

ETL Development – The CDP ETL & Database Engineer will be responsible for building pipelines to feed downstream data processes. They will be able to analyze data, interpret business requirements, and establish relationships between data sets. The ideal candidate will be familiar with different encoding formats and file layouts such as JSON and XML.

Implementations & Onboarding – Will work with the team to onboard new clients onto the ZMP/CDP+ platform. The candidate will solidify business requirements, perform ETL file validation, establish users, perform complex aggregations, and syndicate data across platforms. The hands‑on engineer will take a test driven approach towards development and will be able to document processes and workflows.

Incremental Change Requests– The CDP ETL & Database Engineer will be responsible for analyzing change requests and determining the best approach towards implementation and execution of the request. This requires the engineer to have a deep understanding of the platform's overall architecture. Change requests will be implemented and tested in a development environment to ensure their introduction will not negatively impact downstream processes.

Change Data Management – The candidate will adhere to change data management procedures and actively participate in CAB meetings where change requests will be presented and approved. Prior to introducing change, the engineer will ensure that processes are running in a development environment. The engineer will be asked to do peer‑to‑peer code reviews and solution reviews before production code deployment.

Collaboration & Process Improvement – The engineer will be asked to participate in knowledge share sessions where they will engage with peers, discuss solutions, best practices, overall approach, and process. The candidate will be able to look for opportunities to streamline processes with an eye towards building a repeatable model to reduce implementation duration.

Job Requirements

The CDP ETL & Database Engineer will be well versed in the following areas:

Relational data modeling

ETL and FTP concepts

Advanced Analytics using SQL Functions

Cloud technologies - AWS, Snowflake

Able to decipher requirements, provide recommendations, and implement solutions within predefined timeframes.

The ability to work independently, but at the same time, the individual will be called upon to contribute in a team setting.

The engineer will be able to confidently communicate status, raise exceptions, and voice concerns to their direct manager.

Participate in internal client project status meetings with the Solution/Delivery management teams.

When required, collaborate with the Business Solutions Analyst (BSA) to solidify requirements.

Ability to work in a fast paced, agile environment; the individual will be able to work with a sense of urgency when escalated issues arise.

Strong communication and interpersonal skills, ability to multitask and prioritize workload based on client demand.

Familiarity with Jira for workflow mgmt., and time allocation.

Familiarity with Scrum framework, backlog, planning, sprints, story points, retrospectives etc.

Required Skills

ETL – ETL tools such as

Talend (Preferred, not required)

DM Express – Nice to have o Informatica – Nice to have

Database - Hands on experience with the following database Technologies

Snowflake (Required)

MYSQL/PostgreSQL – Nice to have

Familiar with NOSQL DB methodologies (Nice to have)

Programming Languages – Can demonstrate knowledge of any of the following.

PLSQL

Python - Strong Plus

o

Scala - Nice to have

AWS – Knowledge of the following AWS services:S3 EMR (Concepts) EC2 (Concepts)

Understands JSON Data structures, key value pair.

Working knowledge of Code Repositories such as GIT, Win CVS, SVN.

Workflow management tools such as Apache Airflow, Kafka, Automic/Appworx

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Excellent verbal & written communications skills.

Self-Starter, highly motivated.

Analytical mindset.

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